A streak is a mark or characteristic. What makes you keep trying to wipe the streak of permanent marker off the white couch your clean streak or your stubborn streak?
To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
Noun
a marking of a different color or texture from the background
Noun
a distinctive characteristic; "he has a stubborn streak"; "a streak of wildness"
Noun
a sudden flash (as of lightning)
Noun
an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck"; "Nicklaus had a run of birdies"
Verb
mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
Verb
run naked in a public place
Verb
move quickly in a straight line; "The plane streaked across the sky"
v. t.
To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead
body.
n.
A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a
stripe; a vein.
n.
A strake.
n.
The fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when scratched
or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of which is sometimes a
distinguishing character.
n.
The rung or round of a ladder.
v. t.
To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to
variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors.
v. t.
With it as an object: To run swiftly.
Streak
Streak
What mean those colored streaks in heaven?2.
Streak
A mule . . . streaked and dappled with white and black.
Now streaked and glowing with the morning red.2.
To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
A line or long mark of a different color from the ground; a stripe; a vein.
To form streaks or stripes in or on; to stripe; to variegate with lines of a different color, or of different colors.
Usage Examples
Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.
There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.
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Other Usage ExamplesFor years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
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